2nd International Workshop on Testing The Cloud

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Cloud computing is everywhere, inevitable: originally a layered
abstraction of an heterogeneous environment, it has become the
paradigm of a large-scale data-oriented system. And while it has some
interesting features (easy deployment of applications, resiliency,
security, performance, scalability, elasticity, etc.), testing its
robustness and its reliability is a major challenge. The Cloud is an
intricate collection of interconnected and virtualised computers,
connected services, complex service-level agreements. From a testing
perspective, the Cloud is then a complex composition of complex
systems, and one can wonder whether anything like a global testing is
possible? But if the answer is no, what can we conclude from partial
tests? The question of testing this large, network-based, dynamic,
composition of computers, virtual machines, servers, services, SLAs,
seems particularly difficult.